Pan-Green Coalition

{{Short description|Political coalition in Taiwan (Republic of China)}}

{{For|the political party practicing Green politics in Taiwan|Green Party Taiwan}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Pan-Green Coalition

| native_name = {{nobold|泛綠聯盟}}

| native_name_lang = zh-Hant-TW

| colorcode = {{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}

| logo = Flag of World Taiwanese Congress.svg

| leader1_title = Leader

| leader1_name = Lai Ching-te

| foundation =

| headquarters =

| ideology = Majority:
Taiwanese nationalism
Progressivism (Taiwanese)
Anti-communism
Anti-imperialism

Factions:
ROC independence
Taiwan independence
Social democracy
Social liberalism
Green politics
Radicalism
{{nowrap|Conservatism (Taiwanese){{Cite news |date=December 19, 2023 |title=Taiwan Solidarity Union Positions Itself Against Trans Rights |url=https://newbloommag.net/2023/12/19/tsu-trans-rights/ |quote=The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), which currently holds no seats in the Legislative Yuan but has historically positioned itself as a politically conservative pan-Green party, has taken a stance against trans rights with recent actions. |access-date=March 18, 2025 |work=New Bloom Magazine }}}}

| seats1_title = Legislative Yuan

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|51|113|hex={{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}|per=1}}

| colours = {{color box|{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} Green

| website =

| country = Taiwan

}}

{{Chinese

| title = Pan-Green coalition

| t = 泛綠聯盟

| s = 泛绿联盟

| p = Fànlǜ Liánméng

| poj = Huān-le̍k-liân-bêng

| altname = Pan-Green force

| t2 = 泛綠軍

| s2 = 泛绿军

| p2 = Fànlǜ Jūn

| poj2 = Huān-le̍k-kun

| altname3 = Pan-Green groups

| t3 = 綠營

| s3 = 绿营

| p3 = Lǜ Yíng

| poj3 = Le̍k-iânn

| w = {{tone superscript|Fan4-lü4 Lien2-meng2}}

| bpmf = ㄈㄢˋㄌㄩˋ ㄌㄧㄢˊㄇㄥˊ

| bpmf2 = ㄈㄢˋㄌㄩˋ ㄐㄩㄣ

| w2 = {{tone superscript|Fan4-lü4 Chün1}}

| w3 = {{tone superscript|Lü4 Ying2}}

| bpmf3 = ㄌㄩˋ ㄧㄥˊ

| gr = Fannliuh Lianmeng

| gr2 = Fannliuh Jiun

| gr3 = Liuh Yng

| tp = Fàn-lyù Lián-méng

| tp2 = Fàn-lyù Jyun

| tp3 = Lyù Yíng

| mi = {{IPAc-cmn|f|an|4|.|l|ü|4|-|l|ian|2|.|m|eng|2}}

| mi2 = {{IPAc-cmn|f|an|4|.|l|ü|4|-|jun|1}}

| mi3 = {{IPAc-cmn|l|ü|4|-|ying|2}}

}}

The Pan-Green coalition, Pan-Green force or Pan-Green groups is a nationalist political coalition in Taiwan (Republic of China), consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Green Party Taiwan, Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU), and Taiwan Constitution Association (TCA). The platform of the New Power Party is also very closely aligned with all the other Pan-Green parties.{{Cite web |url=http://www.new7.com.tw/SNewsView.aspx?Key=%EF%BF%BD%25&i=TXT20150930171718UCG&p=3 |title=【政治事】時代力量十席「緊箍咒」套到民進黨 |access-date=2015-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208212046/http://www.new7.com.tw/SNewsView.aspx?Key=%EF%BF%BD%25&i=TXT20150930171718UCG&p=3 |archive-date=2015-12-08 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ettoday.net/news/20150708/531965.htm|title=時代力量傾向支持蔡英文黃國昌：需承諾共推重要改革 | ETtoday政治新聞 | ETtoday新聞雲|website=www.ettoday.net|date=8 July 2015|access-date=11 February 2022|archive-date=11 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220211221132/https://www.ettoday.net/news/20150708/531965.htm|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://theinitium.com/article/20150825-taiwan-thirdparty/ |title=超越藍綠？台灣社運型政黨前進立法院 |date=24 August 2015 |access-date=2020-06-15 |archive-date=2019-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513151848/https://theinitium.com/article/20150825-taiwan-thirdparty/ |url-status=live }}

History

The name comes from the colours of the Democratic Progressive Party, which originally adopted green in part because of its association with the anti-nuclear movement. In contrast to the Pan-Blue Coalition, the Pan-Green Coalition favors Taiwanization and Taiwan independence over Chinese unification, although members in both coalitions have moderated their policies to reach voters in the center.

This strategy is helped by the fact that much of the motivation that voters have for voting for one party or the other are for reasons that have nothing to do with relations with China. This is particularly true among swing voters. For much of the 1990s, the parties which later formed the Pan-Green Coalition greatly benefited because they were less corrupt than the ruling Kuomintang (KMT). However, due to the controversies and the alleged corruption cases involving the former DPP nominated President Chen Shui-bian, the public perception of the Coalition is seemed to have been altered somewhat.

The Pan-Green Coalition formed in the aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, after which Lee Teng-hui was expelled from the Kuomintang and created his own party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, which maintains a pro-independence platform.

Unlike the internal dynamics of the Pan-Blue Coalition, which consist of relatively equal-sized parties with very similar ideologies, the Pan-Green Coalition contains the DPP, which is much larger and more moderate than the TSU. So rather than coordinating electoral strategies, the presence of the TSU keeps the DPP from moving too far away from its Taiwan independence roots. In local elections, competition tends to be fierce between Pan-Green candidates from different parties, and as a rule, joint candidates are not proposed.

The Green Party Taiwan is not considered as part of the Pan-Green Coalition, but the Green Party has similar views with the Democratic Progressive Party, especially on environmental and social issues, and the Green Party is also allied with the Social Democratic Party.

Member parties

= Current members =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"

! colspan="2" | Party

! Ideology

! Leader

bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Progressive Party}}" |

| Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
{{lang|zh-Hans|民主進步黨}}

| {{ublist|class=nowrap|Progressivism (Taiwanese)|Social liberalism|Taiwanese nationalism{{cref|A}}|Anti-communism|Anti-imperialism{{cite book |author=Chih-ming Wang |title=Transpacific Articulations: Study Abroad and the Making of Asia/America |date=2006 |publisher=University of California, Santa Cruz |pages=204}}}}

| Lai Ching-te

bgcolor="{{party color|Taiwan Statebuilding Party}}" |

| Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP)
{{lang|zh-Hans|台灣基進}}

| {{ubl|class=nowrap

Taiwanese independence{{Cite web |url=https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2020/03/not-just-a-two-party-system/ |title=Not Just a Two-party System |publisher=Taiwan Business TOPICS |access-date=16 June 2020 |date=25 March 2020 |quote=Besides supporting Taiwan independence, the TSP regards itself as a left-wing party that promotes social equality and admires the social welfare systems of northern European countries. |archive-date=18 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218112142/https://topics.amcham.com.tw/2020/03/not-just-a-two-party-system/ |url-status=live }}|Progressivism (Taiwanese){{Cite web |url=https://hongkongfp.com/2021/10/31/the-loss-of-language-is-the-loss-of-heritage-the-push-to-revive-taiwanese-in-taiwan/ |title='The loss of language is the loss of heritage:' the push to revive Taiwanese in Taiwan |publisher=Hong Kong Free Press |date=31 October 2021 |access-date=16 December 2021 |quote=But the implementation of 18 national languages in official settings has not gone smoothly. In late September, a conversation between Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng and the progressive Taiwan Statebuilding Party’s only elected lawmaker, Chen Po-wei, became heated after Chen requested the use of an interpreter so he could speak in Taigí, his mother tongue.}}|Radicalism{{Cite web|title=基進黨（基進側翼）- 關於基進黨|url=http://radicalwings.tw/about.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514172120/http://radicalwings.tw/about.php |archive-date=2019-05-14 }}{{cite news |last1=Ng |first1=Kang-chung |title=Pro-independence Taiwanese party broadcasts recording of woman claiming to be Hong Kong localist who fled the city ahead of Mong Kok riot trial |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3009301/pro-independence-taiwanese-party-broadcasts-recording-woman |access-date=11 January 2020 |work=South China Morning Post |date=8 May 2019 |language=en |archive-date=11 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111183348/https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3009301/pro-independence-taiwanese-party-broadcasts-recording-woman |url-status=live }}|Anti-communism{{Cite web|title=共諜滲透肆虐，威脅台美軍事互信|url=http://www.radicalwings.tw/%E5%85%B1%E8%AB%9C%E6%BB%B2%E9%80%8F%E8%82%86%E8%99%90%EF%BC%8C%E5%A8%81%E8%84%85%E5%8F%B0%E7%BE%8E%E8%BB%8D%E4%BA%8B%E4%BA%92%E4%BF%A1/|date=2021-12-22|last=Statebuilding|first=Taiwan|work=台灣基進|language=zh-TW|access-date=2024-05-07|archive-date=2024-06-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240603025528/http://www.radicalwings.tw/%E5%85%B1%E8%AB%9C%E6%BB%B2%E9%80%8F%E8%82%86%E8%99%90%EF%BC%8C%E5%A8%81%E8%84%85%E5%8F%B0%E7%BE%8E%E8%BB%8D%E4%BA%8B%E4%BA%92%E4%BF%A1/|url-status=live}}|Anti-imperialism{{Cite web|title=台灣基進《同島一命捍衛和平》宣言|url=https://www.statebuilding.tw/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E5%9F%BA%E9%80%B2%E3%80%8A%E5%90%8C%E5%B3%B6%E4%B8%80%E5%91%BD-%E6%8D%8D%E8%A1%9B%E5%92%8C%E5%B9%B3%E3%80%8B%E5%AE%A3%E8%A8%80/|date=2022-10-01|last=Statebuilding|first=Taiwan|work=台灣基進|language=zh-TW|access-date=2024-06-03|archive-date=2024-05-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514094048/https://www.statebuilding.tw/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E5%9F%BA%E9%80%B2%E3%80%8A%E5%90%8C%E5%B3%B6%E4%B8%80%E5%91%BD-%E6%8D%8D%E8%A1%9B%E5%92%8C%E5%B9%B3%E3%80%8B%E5%AE%A3%E8%A8%80/|url-status=live}}}}

| Chen Yi-chi

bgcolor="#FF3366" |

| Social Democratic Party (SDP)
{{lang|zh-Hans|社會民主黨}}

| Social democracy
Progressivism (Taiwanese)
Anti-imperialism

| Ting Yung-yan

bgcolor="{{party color|Green Party Taiwan}}" |

| Green Party Taiwan
{{lang|zh-Hans|台灣綠黨}}

| Green politics
Anti-imperialism

| Lee Keng-cheng and Chang Yu-jing

bgcolor="{{party color|Taiwan Solidarity Union}}" |

| Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU)
{{lang|zh-Hans|臺灣團結聯盟}}

| {{Nowrap|Conservatism (Taiwanese)
Right-wing populism{{cite news | url = https://www.ftvnews.com.tw/news/detail/2020108P22M1 | title = 台聯黨賭上政治生涯！刊廣告「輸給新黨台聯收攤」 | publisher = Formosa Television | date = 10 October 2021 | archive-date = 9 October 2021 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20211009185805/https://www.ftvnews.com.tw/news/detail/2020108P22M1}}
Taiwan independence{{Cite web|url=http://www.tsu.org.tw/?post_type=policy&p=100|title=台灣團結聯盟|access-date=2024-05-07|archive-date=2017-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170621120936/http://www.tsu.org.tw/?post_type=policy&p=100|url-status=live}}
Anti-communism{{Cite news |date=August 22, 2016 |title=Dozens stage rowdy protest at Taiwan airport as China official visits |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/dozens-stage-rowdy-protest-at-taiwan-airport-as-china-official-visits |access-date=March 27, 2025 |work=The Straits Times }}
Anti-Chinese nationalism{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HeUv9g0bOU&feature=emb_title |title=撕毀踩踏五星旗！台聯撐香港籲小英射出「三支箭」 - YouTube |website=YouTube |date=7 October 2019 |access-date=2024-05-07 |archive-date=2023-11-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120183953/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HeUv9g0bOU&feature=emb_title |url-status=live }}}}

| Liu Yi-te

= Former members =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"

! colspan="2" | Party

! Ideology

bgcolor="{{party color|Taiwan Independence Party}}" |

| Taiwan Independence Party (TIP)
{{lang|zh-Hans|建國黨}}

| Progressivism

bgcolor="{{party color|Taiwan Constitution Association}}" |

| Taiwan Constitution Association (TCA)
{{lang|zh-Hans|制憲聯盟}}

| Constitutionalism

Legislative strength

= [[Legislative Yuan]] =

class="wikitable" !Election !Number of popular votes !% of popular votes !Districts !At-large !Aborigine !Overseas !Total Seats !Member parties (extra-parliamentary parties bracketed)
1992 \|2,944,195 (Districts + Aborigine) \|31.03 \|38 \|11 \|0 \|2 \|{{Composition bar\|51\|130\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP
1995 \|3,132,156 (Districts + Aborigine) \|33.20 \|41 \|11 \|0 \|2 \|{{Composition bar\|54\|164\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP
1998 \|3,111,952 (Districts + Aborigine) \|31.01 \|53 \|15 \|0 \|3 \|{{Composition bar\|71\|225\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + TIP
2001 \|4,250,682 (Districts + Aborigine) \|41.15 \|77 \|19 \|0 \|4 \|{{Composition bar\|100\|225\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + TSU + (TIP)
2004 \|4,230,076 (Districts + Aborigine) \|43.53 \|76 \|20 \|1 \|4 \|{{Composition bar\|101\|225\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + TSU + (TIP)
2008 \|4,043,781 (Party-list) \|41.35 \|13 \|14 \|0 \| - \|{{Composition bar\|27\|113\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + (TSU + TCA + Green)
2012 \|5,735,422 (Party-list) \|43.57 \|27 \|16 \|0 \| - \|{{Composition bar\|43\|113\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + TSU
2016 \|6,027,672 (Party-list) \|49.48 \|49 \|18 \|1 \| - \|{{Composition bar\|68\|113\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + (TSU + TIP + TCA + Green + SDP)
2020 \|5,650,427 (Party-list) \|39.90 \|47 \|13 \|2 \| - \|{{Composition bar\|62\|113\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + TSP + (Green + TSU + TIP)
2024 \|5,237,810 (Party-list) \|38.01 \|36 \|13 \|2 \| - \|{{Composition bar\|51\|113\|{{party color\|Democratic Progressive Party}}}} \|DPP + (TSP + Green + TSU)

class="wikitable"

!Election

!Number of popular votes

!% of popular votes

!Districts

!At-large

!Aborigine

!Overseas

!Total Seats

!Member parties (extra-parliamentary parties bracketed)

1992

|2,944,195 (Districts + Aborigine)